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..UMOROUS IRISH DIALECT VERSE 
ENTERTAINMENT 

In One Scene 



MARY ELKINS GARDYNE 



Price 60 Cents 



EDGAR S. WERNER & CO. 
11 East 14th Street, New York City 



Copyright, 1922, By M. S. T. Werner 



The Antsisters of Widdy Maloney 

Mary Elkins Gardyne 

Copyright, 1922, By M. S. T. Werner 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Widdy Tim my O'Flint 

Father Bridget Muldoon 

Mother McSorley Twins 

Maky Maloney Patsy O'Sullivan 

Dennis Maloney Bid Magee 

Nellie McGuire Mike Shaughnessy and Wife 

Children : Pat, Mickey, Kate Norah Casey 
Dr.and Mrs. Finnegan Katy McPherson 

Larry Maloney 

COSTUMES 

Widdy. Aristocratic old lady in black silk decorated with lacc 

collar and cuffs. Hair dressed high with back-comb. Carries 

'lace handkerchief conspicuously. 
Father. Mutton-chop whiskers. 
Mother. Snow-white hair; wears saintly expression. 
Dennis. Cross-eyed. Wears standing collar and green tie; hair 

pompadour. 
Mary. Very handsome girl about twenty years old with red 

cheeks. 
Nellie. Sixteen years old; hair worn in curls or braids over 

shoulders. 
Children. Girl wears hair drawn back and plaited; boys wear 

hair pasted down and broad white collars. 
Dr. Finnigan. Large, red-faced and jovial. 
Mrs. Finnigan. Small- faced woman, hair parted in middle; 

lace collar. 
Bridget Muldoon. Buxom young woman. 
NoRAH Casey. Conspicuous bonnet. 
Bid Magee. Red hair. 
Katy McPherson. Latest style. • ] 

Patsy O'Sullivan. Policeman. . 
Larry. In uniform. i 

Note : In the pictures the hair and neckwear are most important ] 
as only shoulders show. Old daguerreotypes aid in arrange- ■ 
ment. 



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^t^X^'^ THE ALBUM 

f The Album consists of a wooden frame 36x32 arranged in two 
parts held together in book form; cover is padded and cov- 
ered with garnet colored cambric with word ALBUM printed 
in gold letters on front cover. The Album consists of four 
(4) leaves made from heavy paper, one fly leaf. The open- 
ings for the pictures are oval, square and oblong. 

STAGE SETTING 

Set stage like room; hang portieres in rear. Fasten Album se- 
curely on box or table and in such fashion that person posing 
behind may sit naturally with face well into frame. Arrange 
light high to fall on picture. Widdy stands at right; recites 
slowly, opens Album and pauses as she shows picture and 
during music following it, then resumes narration. 

Note: Mother, Mary Maloney, Nellie, Children, Katy and 
Larry are shown twice. 

THE MUSIC 

The selection suggested after each picture adds greatly whether 
played or sung. The Chorus by the cast in costume, at close 
of pictures, is especially effective. 

THE PROGRAM 

1. Introduction. Music: "Wearing of the Green.^' 

2. Picture: Father. Music: 'What's the Matter With Father?" 

3. Picture: Mother. Music: ''Mother Machree." 

4. Picture: Dennis. Music: "The Girl I Left Behind Me.'' 

5. Picture: Mary. Music: "When You and I Were Young, 

Maggie." 

6. Picture Nellie. Music: "The Last Rose of Summer" or 

"Kathleen Mavourneen." 

7. Picture : Children. Music : "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra." 

8. Picture: Bridget Muldoon. Music: "The Kerry Dancing." 

9. Picture: Dr. and Mrs. Finnigan. Music: "Killarney.'' 

10. Picture: Timmy OTlint. Music: "Harrigan, That^s Me." 

11. Picture: McSorley Twins. Music: "McSorley Twins." 

12. Picture: Patsy Dowd O'Sullivan. Music: "Rings On Me 

Fingers." 

13. Picture: Bid Magee. Music: "The Low-backed Car." 

14. Picture: Mike Shaughnessy and Wife. Music: "Mush, Mush, 

Mush," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." 



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15. Picture: Norah Casey. Music: ''Where the River Shannon i 

Flows," ''My Little Irish Rose/^ 

16. Picture: Katy McPherson. Music: "The Tumble-down Shack I 

in Athlone" or "Mickey." ! 

17. Picture : Larry. Music : "The Minstrel Boy." f I 

18. Conclusion. Music: "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning." \ 

19. Chorus: "The Little Green Shamrock." By the Cast. \ 

I 

THE ENTERTAINMENT \ 

1, Introduction ] 

WiDDY speaking: | 

I came from Tipperary ] 

Full forty years ago | 

And brought these pictures wid me — ' 

Me relatives, you know. 
In America weVe a plinty 

An' often some to spare, ! 

But we don't forgit the ould wans ] 

Be the new wans twice more fair. | 

An' I brought a record wid me i 

To tell yez about each, i 

For some are gone — to Heaven, I trust — I 

Beyant our care an' reach ; i 

Though it seems but a day 
Since I left them at home, 

A young bride of twinty ; 

Wid Dennis to roam. 
[WiDDY stops speaking and music is played, '^The Wearing of I 
the Greenf'\ ■ 

WiDDY speaking: [As Father appears in page of book] i 

This f oine ould Irish gentleman I 

Is Fayther, 'pon me soul ! j 

He was an artist, shure, by trade. 

An' often I've been tould . i 

Of how he painted famous min { 

An' took his pay in gold. \ 

O! He was sought for miles aroun' j 

To entertain an' play ; 

On bells or drums or anything 
That ever came his way. 
There wa'n't wan thing he couldn't do 
I've never seen his loike ; 



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The stories that that man would tell 
Would make yez laugh all night. 
When he was young there wasn't a man 
Compared wid Mick McGuire. 
An' makin* love to pretty girls 
He never seemed to tire. 
[WiDDY stands meditating while chorus of 'What's the Matter 
With Father r' is being played, then opens next leaf of 
Album and looks and speaks sadly as Mother's face ap^ 
pears in opening of leaf,] 

WiDDY speaking: 

Shure an' this sweet face is Mither, 
O ! I can see her now — 
The patient smile she always wore — * 
The calm, unruffled bro\y. 
When me heart is feeling heavy, 
An' me thrials hard to bear, 
Me thoughts turn back to Mither 
Who all my cares would share. 
Though dim my eyes and slow my steps 
I have not long to wait 
Before I clasp the welcoming hands 
That beckon at the Gate. 
[ WiDDY wipes a tear away while music of ''Mother Machree" 
is being played,] • . 

WiDDY [turning page where Dennis Maloney appears], s^taks: 
Ah, here's Dennis for ye, 
A gintlemon bred. 
Pace be to his ashes, | 

Poor sowl, he is dead ! ' 

At the sight of his face \ 

Tinder memories rise \ 

And come back to me now ■ 

For he spakes wid his eyes. \ 

Shure where is the woman ^ 

Could forgit his smile, \ 

And bis blarney was known \ 

Around many a mile. I 

Good luck followed Dennis \ 

Wherever he wint, J 

With the poor and the needy i 

He'd share his last cint. ; 

He left me a widdy | 

Tin years come next May, 



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And a widdy he'll foind me j 

To the last Judgment Day. 

[Widdy stands with most pnthetic expression during playing .] 
of music of ''The Girl I Left Behind Me/'] \ 

[Widdy turns next leaf and is surprised to hear Mary 
Maloney speak from the leaf. Her face changes from 
time to time as she listens. If preferred Widdy may do \ 
the speaking,] \ 

Mary Maloney: \ 

Arrah ! Now don't be guessing ! i 

Ye know full well it's me. ' ■ \ 

'Twas tuk in dear ould Dublin ! 

Before I crossed the sea, I 

And if poor Dennis shure could spake i 

I know what he would say, — \ 

"The years have passed for you, Ma*ry, 
YeVe not grown ould a day !" 
Ah, go 'long wid your blarney ! 
That's forty years ago, 
But if me face is wrinkled 
Me heart is young, ye know. 
For, loike the shamrock, love will thrive, 
If hearts will not grow cold, j 

And keep us youthful all the days j 

While we are growing old. 

[Music, ''When You and I Were Young, Maggie,''] ] 

Widdy [smiling sentimentally] speaks [and turns into view 
Nellie McGuire.] 
And this is sweet Nellie, 

The pride of Kildare, i 

The soight of the child \ 

Breaks me heart, I declare. \ 

So dear was her face | 

And so blithe was her tongue '\ 

And many's the heart 
That was won by her song. 

But the bloom on her cheek . \ 

Faded fast like the flower, . \ 

And we laid her to rest \ 

In a green shaded bower. \ 

But I mourns for her yit, "* 

And me heart's wid her there, j 

Me own sister Nellie, \ 

The pride of Kildare. ' 



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[Music of ''The Last Rose of Summer'' or ''Kathleen Ma- \ 

vourneen" is now played.] \ 

WiDDY speaks [as she turns next leaf of Album revealing her \ 
three children.] 

An' these are me childrers, ] 

Pat, Micky, and Kate. 

Begorra they're jewels; * ' 

An' don't they sit straight! ; 

The smoile on the gurl 

Is a sight for sore eyes i 

An' ye'd know at a glance ^ 

That them byes were a prize. 

Now, Patrick the oldest 's 

Cashier in the bank. \ 

Ye wouldn't belave it — ! 

The tow-headed scamp ! 

He married the president's gurl — '^ 

Only child, ! 

And they live on Fifth Avenoo, I 

Shure in great stoile. I 

Each day they go riding \ 

In autos an' sich \ 

Aristocratic conveyances 1 

Made for the rich. \ 

But his love for his Mither » ; 

Has never grown cold, j 

And the ways that he shows it 

Are better than gold. 

And Micky, me baby — \ 

God bless his dear heart! — \ 

Ye can see him each day \ 

If ye walks in the park; \ 

A six-'foot policeman ] 

All dressed up so foine j 

I scarcely believe ; 

That the bye can be mine. 

His record's unsurpassed by but wan ^ 

Is my belief, ] 

An' that wan was Roosevelt \ 

When he was the Chief. 

The gurl in the middle \ 

Is Katie, you see, • j 

Her fayther's own child ^ 

As plain as can be. '< 



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I 

She married a doctor i 

And lives in New York /^ i 

Where he made a big name ] 

And got rich without work. ^ 

And if Katie's me gurl, \ 
I can spake to her praise, ' \ 
She's loike her own Mither 

In all of her ways. i 

[Music is played of ''Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Raf'] 1 

WiDDY speaks: ' \ 

, An' this is me old friend j 
Bridget Miildoon, 
An' wan I will niver forgit 

Very soon. | 

For on the Qrange question • 

She took a firm stand, j 

And spoke out her moind J 
On the subject at hand. 

Ah, Bid won her fame ] 

And became the town talk | 

When she got youth and age \ 
In the Irish Kake Walk. 
[WiDDY stands smiling during playing of music ''Kerry 
Dancing/'] 

WiDDY [turning leaves of Album and revealing Dr. Finnegan and ] 

Mrs, Finnegan], speaks: | 

Arrah, here's Doctor Finnegan, j 

A mon of great renown, I 

Who won the hearts of all who lived ! 

In good old Dublin town. : 
For every woman, man or child, 

He had a tender feelin' j 

And I've been told his pills are used ^ 

By Worden and by Keelan. ; 
His medicine he made so sweet 

The children bawled for more, I 
An' niver moind how poor ye was ' ' 
He niver passed yer door. 

He killed good horses, wan by wan, - j 

To answer every call; i 

No matter what the hour moight be I 

He'd go for wan and all. ] 

And that's his good wife by his side, I 

A helpmate true was she, | 

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A friend she was to all who came 
To ask for charity. 

She sent good wine to aid the sick, ] 

And food for them to ate ; | 
Oh, Mrs. Finnegan was wan 

It would be hard to bate. \ 

[WiDDY gases pensively at Mrs, Finnegan during playing of i 

music of ''Killarney/'] \ 

WiDDY speaks : j 

An' here's mc cousin, Timmy OTIint — j 

Perhaps- yeVe seen his name in print. \ 
He's had his hand in everything 

That goes by pulley, lock, or string. ! 

He's got electrics on his moind, \ 
And the meter business right down foine. 
He's genial-like and full of fun. 
And, when he's toime, knows everyone. 

There's wan thing more 'bout cousin Tim, j 

And I would say it right to him : 1 

He helped to bring good water nigh, I 

And that is why folks here do not die. I 

The Hannah Clark's fulfilled her vow I 

That bateren and germs she'd not allow. \ 

Long life to cousin Timmy, ■ 
It's always right that wins ! 

[Music is played of '-Harrigan, Thafs Me'' and Widdy \ 
stands smiling. \ 

Widdy speaks: 

Now here's a picture for yez, - ;] 
McSorley's famous twins. ■ \ 

You've read about their christening? '\ 

It was a happy day. j 

The paple came to see thim twins j 

From forty miles away. \ 

They proved to be good wimmens, too, \ 
And married well, I know. 

To Dennis' niece's third cousin byes — i 
That's Dan and Pat McGrew. 

[Music, ''McSorley's Twins" is played.] '\ 

Widdy speaks: 

Now cast yer eyes on this, me friends, | 

It's foine, to say the least, \ 
Of Patsy Dowd O'Sullivan * | 

When he was plain police. i 



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j 

Shure he was destined not to wield j 

A billy all his life, \ 

But called to be a peacemaker ■ 

To settle wrong and strife; i 

An* he has riz wid moighty strides ' 

To lofty heights of Fame, ' 

An* by his wit and eloquence j 

Has won a lawyer's name, ] 
I wish you'd hear him plead a case. 

He always fights to bate, j 

An* if he fails in logic sound, \ 

Will use his hands and fate. ' 

A bowld man is O'Sullivan, \ 
The kind of min that win. 
[Music ''Rings on Me Fingers'' is played.] 

WiDDY speaks : ! 
Here's another good ould friend 

That was a gurl with me. * ! 

As trim a figure, shure, she had I 

As wan moight wish to see. ] 
And not wan soul on Erin*s Isle 

Could bate her making tay. j 

Ah, to me death, 1*11 not forgit \ 

Me ould friend, Bid McGee. i 

[Music is played, "Low-backed Car!'] \ 

Wtddy speaks: \ 
Faith, isn*t this a picture, 

An* hasn*t he the stoile? , 
Vm proud to own Mike Shaughnessy 

From good ould Erin's Isle. \ 

When we were young and frisky \ 
Mike was a flirt for shure. 

The girls to whom that lad made love j 
Would number by the score. 

When he wed Eileen McNally \ 

He surely won a prize. ] 

They raised a noble family j 

But all their girls was byes ! { 

Please note the happy lady, ; 

Her smoiles they can't be bate; j 

And she's the daintiest lady ^ 

That ever sthood on fate. \ 
[Music, ''Mush, Mush, Mush," is played followed by "When \ 

Irish Eyes Are Smiling."] ^ ^l 



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WiDDY speaks : 

An' this is Norah Casey, 

An' doesn't she look neat? 

An' Norah was a daisy 

An' she could sing so sweet. 

She sold her lace in Dublin 

An' dressed just loike a queen, 

Her bonnets were the latest stoile 

That ever could be seen. 
[Music, ''My Little Irish Rose," followed by ''Where the 

River Shannon Flows'' is played,] 
WiDDY speaks: 

An' this is Katy's baby 

Grown up an' fair to see. 

Why, she's almost a lady 

An' quite as tall as me ! 

When Doctor came last summer 

He brought her from New York. 

I'd know that she was Katy's gurl 

The way that she could talk. 

She's kissed the Blarney stone for shure, 

An' it has done its work. 
[Music, "The Tumble-down Shack in Athlone'' or "Mickey/'] 
WiDDY speaks : 

An' this is Mick's boy, Larry, 

That sailed across to France. 

Those U. S. boys put up a fight 

That made the Germans dance. 

*T would warm the cockles of your heart 

To hear the laddie tell 

Of how they held the Hun at bay 

An' give them shell for shell. 

Shure 'twas Donavan an' Sullivan, 

O'Bri'n an' Casey, too, 

The fightin' blood is in their veins. 

Not wan's afraid to do. 

H Dennis only could have lived 

To see the happy day 

When little Larry, bless his heart, 

So proudly marched away! 
^ Tho' 'twas Eng-lish, Scotch, an' Irish, 

In the dusty khaki ranks. 

They were shouting with a spirit: 

"Forward all! Here come the Yanks." 



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[Mtisic, ''The Minstrel Boy/'] \ 

WiDDY speaks: 

IVe shown me Irish relatives : 

On good St. Patrick's Day {or On this grand ould day), I 
An' tould yez all about 'em 

In the good ould Irish way. ; 

An' there was niver better wans j 

So nothing more I'll say. 

[Music, ''St. Patrick's Day/'] ] 

Chorus: Whole Cast, in costume, sings to tune of /The Old 

Oaken Bucket" the words of "The Little Green Shamrock." ■ 

The Little Green Shamrock i 

How dear to me heart is the memory of Erin, j 

The days that are past I still fondly recall : 

My father's ould home by the lakes of Killamey — ' 

The gray tower still stands and the ivy->green wall. - 

Long years have gone by since those bright days of childhood, 
From home and from loved ones I'm now far apart, 
But true am I still to ould Erin forever, , \ 

And the little green shamrock I wear in my heart. i 

Chorus 
The little green shamrock, the little green shamrock, 
The little green shamrock I wear in my heart. 
When gay is the springtime on hillside and heather 
And bright grows the blossom and bird songs are sweet, •' 

My heart turns to Erin, the land of my sweetheart, 
And for my loved Kathleen it ever will beat. 

When the rose is abloom on the shores of Killarney j 

I'll go back, mavourneen, and never we'll part, 

For true am I still to ould Erin forever, i 

And the little green shamrock I wear in my heart. 



Conclusion. j 



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